Category: Crime

WASHINGTON – The former chief of party in Baghdad for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Robert Nathan Boorda, pleaded guilty to an information unsealed today in the U.S. District Court

Washington, D.C. ~ Tuesday, August 7, 2012 Thank you, Mel, for your kind introduction and for reminding us of the vital work being done every day by the Office of Juvenile Justice

WASHINGTON – Martin Angelina, 50, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving loan sharking and illegal gambling, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A convicted felon from El Salvador was sentenced Tuesday to seven years and eight months in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported

HOUSTON—Michael Johnathan Radcliff, 45, has been handed a total sentence of 121 months for distribution and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Radcliff pleaded guilty to the

NEW ORLEANS—QUENTIN KITTEL, age 21, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to five years in prison, followed by eight years of supervised

PHOENIX—On July 30, 2012, William John Watchman, 23, of Fort Defiance, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 100 months in federal prison, to be followed by three

Domingo Ramirez Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas – Country singer Randy Travis faces a charge of driving while intoxicated and retaliation against a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper after he was found

DENVER—Ray William Sievers, age 29, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 37 months in federal prison for assaulting his 4-month-old daughter,

By Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government’s effort to dismantle Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel is a war with multiple fronts. The latest is the tiny tourist

By Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — A gay artist who said he painted graffiti on the wall of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Torrance, Calif., said he did not mean

By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times – SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Tuesday threw out a lawsuit by lawyers for an Islamic group that charged the federal government had illegally wiretapped

MINNEAPOLIS—Yesterday in federal court, a 39-year-old St. Paul man was charged with filing a false insurance claim for $250,000. Jason William Sheedy was charged via an information with one count of wire

By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – TUCSON, Ariz. — Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing six people and injuring 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, after a mental health official

By Christine Byers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch – ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Cardinals’ Manager Mike Matheny personally identified a 17-year-old boy as the fan he saw aim a green laser pointer at the

By Steve Schmadeke, Matthew Walberg and Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Seeming nervous and his voice at times quaking slightly, the Illinois State Police investigator who prosecutors allege botched the inquiry

Mike LaBella, The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass. – HAVERHILL — A New Hampshire man who was charged in the fatal stabbing of a Haverhill man two years ago was found not guilty

By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — Long before he pulled the trigger, private groups were quietly monitoring the man who killed six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The FBI

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – LAS VEGAS — You’ve heard of “dead man walking,” used to describe the condemned’s long stroll to the execution chamber? But dead man driving? Las

On August 4, 2012 at approximately 8:41 p.m. Officers were dispatched to the 300 block of Locust Street reference a disorderly conduct report. Prior to arrival information was received that a subject

At approximately 1338 hrs, on August 3rd, 2012, officers of the Waterloo Police Department were sent to the area of the 300 block of Allen Street, on a reported shooting. The following

On Friday, August 3, 2012 at approximately 1:35 PM, Waterloo Police and Waterloo Fire Rescue were sent to 302 Allen Street on a report of a shooting. Responding officers found two victims

By Joseph A. Slobodzian, The Philadelphia Inquirer – PHILADELPHIA — Citing the “serious nature of his conduct,” a Philadelphia judge on Monday denied a request by lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn to

By Jason Meisner and Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — A Chicago man on probation for a weapons conviction sent threatening photos of himself armed with a shotgun to a chef at

By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility

By Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune – CHICAGO — Former Gov. George Ryan’s hopes of leaving prison early appeared to dwindle Monday with another rejection from a federal appeals court. Ryan, though, has less

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Brian Bennett and Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times – OAK CREEK, Wis. — The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple had a criminal record, a history of

By Richard A. Serrano, Tribune Washington Bureau – WASHINGTON — Jared Lee Loughner is set to plead guilty Tuesday in the shooting attack that severely wounded then Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to

By Henry Pierson Curtis, The Orlando Sentinel – KISSIMMEE, Fla. — All but one of 240 rape charges have been dropped against an Osceola County, Fla., man accused of having sex with

By Jason Felch and Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES—For nearly a century, the Boy Scouts of America has relied on a confidential blacklist known as the “perversion files” as a

WASHINGTON – Gaeton Lucibello, 59, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving extortion and illegal gambling, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s

WASHINGTON – Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was resentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for his role in bribery, conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice charges involving former HealthSouth CEO

SAN DIEGO — A total of 31 individuals, including nearly two dozen criminal aliens, were taken into custody during an enforcement operation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in

LOS ANGELES — A Canoga Park man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to using Craigslist to advertise and sell counterfeit erectile dysfunction drugs has been sentenced to a year and a

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal grand jury in San Francisco Tuesday indicted a suspected Bay Area gang member for allegedly attempting to kill three special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s

INDIANAPOLIS – As part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ongoing commitment to prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators, 24 convicted criminal aliens, immigration fugitives and

SHREVEPORT, La. — A Fort Bliss, Texas, man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for producing and distributing child pornography, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland

MILWAUKEE — Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) – in close partnership with the Wisconsin police departments of Milwaukee, Greendale and Greenfield – arrested 14

LAREDO, Texas – Two Mexican nationals pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to illegally smuggle 652 assault rifle magazines into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, Southern District of Texas. The investigation for